Inflation and brane gases

Jul, 2003
7 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 69 (2004) 083502
e-Print:
Report number:
  • BROWN-HET-1364,
  • MCGILL-03-15

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Abstract:
We investigate a new way of realizing a period of cosmological inflation in the context of brane gas cosmology. It is argued that a gas of co-dimension one branes, out of thermal equilibrium with the rest of the matter, has an equation of state which can - after stabilization of the dilaton - lead to power-law inflation of the bulk. The most promising implementation of this mechanism might be in Type IIB superstring theory, with inflation of the three large spatial dimensions triggered by ``stabilized embedded 2-branes''. Possible applications and problems with this proposal are discussed.
  • 98.80.Cq
  • inflation
  • membrane model
  • membrane: gas
  • string model
  • membrane: decay
  • space-time: higher-dimensional